The Osceola times., 1887-07-02

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calls occurred at Manchester, England,
and many persons were killed.
A SERIOUS accident occurred on the
Philadelphia, Wilmington q Baiti more
railway at Havre de Grace, Nd, on the
2lst by which large number Of persons
were injured, some Of them very serious
ly.
TnE affairs Of the Fidelity Bank at Gin
cinnuti grow worse as time and cxamina-
ton progresses. The officers were again
| arrested on the Ell.
REroRrs from Coustantinople state tn at
Russia and France have notified Turkey
that II the convention with England con.
cerning Egypt Is ratified, war will ensue.
| ApvIcgs from Rowan County, Kv., are
to the effect that the old war has been re-
newed, and that Craig Tolliver and many
othsrs have been killed.
| On the 22i John O'Rourke, a bridge
builder, OF Chic lgo, employed on brid ge
being built below Cedar Rapids, Ia, fell,
sustaining fatal injuries.
| Mus JACoBUs, the nurse OF President
| Cleveland, died few days ago at Cald-
well, N J. She was born in 1885. and for
| over year had been perfectly helpless,
being paralyzed and blind.
Ok tho 22i Ave men boarded a Grand
Trunk train at Fort Gratiot, Mich, and
| SHIELD up'' the passengers. Several lost
what money they had, and one man lost
el60 Three men have been arrested and
are now In Jail at Port Huron, and more
arrests will follow.
| Ok the 22l Jack Martin. brakeman on
| the Washington, Cedar Rapids North
| ern railroad, in n drunken row at his
home in Cedar Rapids, Ia, stabbed
Dave McElroy, boiler maker in the
shops OF that road. McElroy was stabbed
twice, fatally, In the groin and right lung.
He is unmarried. Martin Is IN custody.
OK the 22d the bodies OF ten persons,
all children except two, were exhumed at
Philadelphia, and portions taken from
each 10 determine by analysis whether or
not their deaths esulted from eating
sweet buns colored with confectioners'
yellow or other adulterative, as has been
charged.
MOSES J. SPEIGur, boy in the House OF
Refuge, Randalps Island, ~ Y, killed his
keeper, W. Il. Cole, with base ball bat,
on the 23d, In an endeavor, with some
other boys, to make their escape.
JouN SuGLASp, on trial at Brattleboro,
VT, for the murder Of Helen A. Burt,
whose body was found in the Connecticut
river on the 10Th, committed suicide by
hanging in his cell on the afternoon OF
the Esd.
FRANK HOPPER, the allege forger from
Cincinnati, who was arrested In Toronto,
Ont, on the 22d, was taken before q
police magistrate on the 3l. Detective
Crawford was present in court, and Hop
per expressed his willingness TO 20 back
with him. They left for Cincinnati the
same evening
MAX MARCOS, aged fifty years, an ad-
vertising clerk in the Daily Ne~s office,
New York City, blew his brains out
on the 23l. There was no one IN the office at
the tins but the Office boy, who. hearing
the shot, rushed tothe scene and found the
body stretched onthe floor. Death resulted
almost imm .diately.
EDWARD SSEED was executed for mur-
der at Independence, Mo-, on the s4th.
A REMARKABLE break occurred in the
Gould stoc ,s on the Now York Exchange
on the oath, and considerable OF apanic
ensued.
CHICAGO burglars chloroformed house
full OF boarders on the morning OF the gath,
and then robbed the Institution.
HoKE, the Peoria QlL) defaulter, has
been granite a suporsedeas, and will not
go 10 Joliet just yet
ALFRED BLUNT, the little hunchback
negro who murdered his wife In Caron-
| delet about a year ago, was hanged in the
st. Louis jail-yard on the cath.
ApIsPArcu from Auburn, Ala, reports
the burning on the Gath Of the State Agri-
| cultural and Mechanical College. Loss,
| $50, 900; insurance, 5000
ABoUr six hundred men employed at
| tho Atlantic oil refinery at Point Breeze,
| Pa, went out on strike on the gath
| against the employment OF Hungarians
| at the works.
BENZ. =. WHEELER, over eighty years
old, rich and peculiar, was arrested near
| ly year ago at Cleveland, O., for choking
| his wife to death. The jury before whom
he was tried returned "a verdict on the
cath OF not guilty, after being out but
twenty minutes. The old man broke
down. and men and women shed tears.
JosEPn B. %IswELt., cashier OF the Bank
| Of America, OF Philadelphia, was struck
| by train on the Philadelphia Il Reading
railroad at Wayne Junction, Pa, on the
cath, and sustained injuries which ter
minated fatally half an hour later
| ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, laborer died
at Kansas City, Mo, on the 24th, from the
effects Of strychnine, taken lho evening
| previous after prolonged drunk. He
refused 10 see physician, and when one
was called fought against taking anti
dotes He had tried 10 kill himself once
before
FIRE broke out on the evening of the
| cath In the Gould AZ Curry mine at Vir-
| ginia City, New. All the miners escaped,
with the exception Of six, employed on the
1880. foot level OF the Best and Belcher
mine. Signals from them had ceased,
and II was feared they had perishei.
| FIRE de. troyei upwards of million
dollars worth OF property at the Chicago
STOCK yards on the 25tb. Hundreds OF
hogs were roasted alive and an immens.
quantity of dressed and packed meat made
food for the flames
Mrs. LEcKIE, wife Of a Presbyterian
clergyman at Airth, Scotland, in ft of
temporary insanity on the 25'h, Gu, the
throats of her three children and ther
her own.
TUE boiler OF the Standard Oil refinery
at Lima, o., exploded on the afternoon OF
the 25th, wrcckiug the building and kill
ing the engineer, Lew Meyers. Six othci
workmen were injured, some fatally.
JouN KELLEY, u lad of seventeen, fel
into vat of boiling water at Sinclair,
packing house, in Cedar rapids, Ia, OF
the 25th. and was fatally scalded.
JonS THOMAS Ross was sentenced :,
death at Baltimore, Md, on the 25th, fol
the mu der of Emily Brown, whose body
was sold by him to the Medical Uni
versity
In a tenement house fire in London, OF
the Goth, several persons were burned u
death or were killed by jumping from thu
burning building.
DURING squall at Philadelphia, on th'
.fth n small sail boat was cans zed in tn,